Word: scale
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...MEMBERS OF THE HARVARD CO-OPERATIVE SOCIETY:-Gentlemen, In an editorial of the CRIMSON of today a plan was suggested, by which $600 should be raised by voluntary contributions to enable the society to continue its work through the year on a somewhat reduced scale of service and a greatly reduced scale of expenditure...
...benefits of the society for the rest of this year, and that is a voluntary assessment footing up to about $600. With that sum, and the sale of the greater part of the stock, it will be possible to run the society through the year on a smaller scale, -say coal and wood, book orders, stationery, tennis goods, and the list of affiliated tradesmen, and employing two clerks, and the superintendent only one day in the week. If there are three hundred men in college who realize that the benefits of the society would be worth $2 to them...
...directors have considered a plan by which the society should carry on its business for the rest of the year on a greatly reduced scale, but after full discussion, have decided that such a course is inexpedient, believing that the only sure way of avoiding a deficit, and a consequent assessment, is to close the business forthwith...
...forensics of juniors and seniors are marked on a scale...
...Harvard, of late years, the freshman has been gradually rising in the social scale, until now, thanks to the system of electives, and the consequent obliteration of the sharply defined class lines, he is almost "as good as his betters." In speaking of the changes which have taken place in college life, an exchange says...